Teks asli (Inggris)

LIST OF CONTENTS CHAP. I Motives to the present work—Reception of the Author’s first publication—Discipline of his taste at school—Effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds—Bowles’s Sonnets— Comparison between the poets before and since Pope II Supposed irritability of genius brought to the test of facts—Causes and occasions of the charge—Its injustice III The Author’s obligations to Critics, and t